Celeste Howey is a true “Gen-X”er, a latch-key kid with a paper route who had to walk to and from school during the week and had to fight her sister for cartoon-choice early Saturday mornings. An Army brat from Cochise County, Arizona, she was always surrounded by the presence of military discipline, especially during her high school years as an active JROTC officer. In 1989, she graduated from Buena High School in the top 10 percent of her class and qualified for a slot at the Air Force Academy, which she declined for Navy Prep School for a chance to attend Annapolis. A fall down an arroyo one night in the desert put the brakes on that course of action.

After a “prolonged hiatus” from school, she attended Northern Arizona University to nearly complete a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies. A little surprise (who is now a young woman) caused a pivot in this plan, however. Celeste changed course toward a degree closer to home at the University of Arizona.

A husband and two little surprises later, Celeste managed to graduate Summa Cum Laude as an Arizona Wildcat in 2002 with a degree in Secondary Education, Extended English, Creative Writing minor. Shortly after, she acquired a job at the very school from which she graduated. She worked for six years as a public-school teacher instructing Junior English Composition with American Literature and Senior English Composition with British Literature. She also worked evenings at the local community college writing lab and taught a class in English Composition 101.

Having taught at the public high school from which she graduated, she could see how much the language curriculum and textbooks had deteriorated in quality. No longer were English classes teaching sentence diagraming or grammar; no longer were classes like Word Study, Latin, or Ancient Rhetoric offered. English had diminished to a “whole language” approach that had nearly eradicated the essential elements of grammar from the curriculum altogether. Witnessing this demise of English courses in the public school system triggered the alarm bells to ring “trouble” in the distance.

Fast forward fifteen years, a series of desperate financial straits brought Celeste to meet her mentor, Bruce Bryant, who introduced her to the Secured Party process. Using her background as an English teacher, grammarian, and curriculum writer, she revised templates with her mentor and then wrote detailed instructions for the protocol to facilitate its use for future clients.

The journey toward becoming a secured party has done more than change her status in the system, it has been an eye-opening experience into the multitude of ways humanity has been stealthily enslaved. Becoming a secured party and researching the financial/geopolitical history, legal statutes and UCC codes that accompany the process brought about the disillusionment of the American fable of our romantic beginnings as a country claiming, “liberty and justice for all.”

To uncover the hidden mechanisms that enslave us, and to offer a solution to disenfranchise oneself from the corporate system is an empowering tool. To know these things and not share them would be a disservice to others, and so she offers her experience to edify those who desire to learn and to empower themselves with knowledge and tools to dissolve the adhesion contracts that unknowingly bind them.

“Looking back, I can see why God capitalized on my gift with language, taking me down a path as an English teacher rather than a scientist. This ability to clearly comprehend the mechanics, nuances, and power of language and to thoroughly research has given me the foundation to decode the hidden legalese through which “they” trap us, and to “sharpen the tip” of my pen in protection of my rights as a sovereign-born woman upon this great land we call America. I am ever so grateful to be of service to my fellow neighbors in this capacity. To be an instrument of Liberty for myself and others is the course upon which I find myself today. I strive to embody Liberty by fanning those flames within my Soul and expand this quality into the very real human experience in a practical way as a sovereign American.”